Light Going Non-Linear: Nano-Scale Cavities, Exotic Light Sources, and Low-Threshold Lasing
Course details
The course comprises a series of 4 lectures, covering:
- Basics of lasing
- High quality cavities at the nanoscale
- Matching optical sources to cavities
- Quantum dots in GaAs photonic crystals
- NV centers in diamond nanobeams
- InGaN fragmented quantum wells in microdisks and nanobeams
Venue:
- 26 Feb, 5 & 10 Mar - Room 2404 (2/F via Lifts 17-18)
- 3 Mar - Room 2405 (2/F via Lifts 17-18)
About the speaker
After receiving her PhD in Physics from Columbia University, Prof Evelyn Hu worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1975 to 1984. She was Professor in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1984-2008. She served as the scientific co-director of the California NanoSystems Institute, a joint initiative at UCSB and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She was awarded a Doctor of Engineering honoris causa from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2013. She is currently a Visiting Professor of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study and Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering.
Prof Hu’s research focuses on high-resolution fabrication of compound semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices, candidate structures for the realization of quantum computation schemes, and on novel device structures formed through the heterogeneous integration of materials. She has also developed biological approaches to the formation of electronic and photonic materials.
Prof Hu is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, US National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Sinica of Taiwan, and the JASON Project. She is also a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has been a recipient of an NSF Distinguished Teaching Fellow award and an AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award, and holds an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Glasgow.
